German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/61, pp. 6913-6914.
Right honorable Frau President. Right honorable colleagues.
Dear citizens.
The CDU recently had its national party day with us in
Hannover. The principal theme was not about the heating change as in the motion
put forward, not Russia’s war, not the energy shortage, not the wave of
bankruptcy of many businesses; no, the principal theme was the women’s quota.
It succeeded, you passed the introduction of the women’s quota. Congratulations;
for thus does the Alternative für Deutschland, free of quotas and
discrimination, once again have one more unique position.
Michael Donth (CDU/CSU): Tätä, tätä, tätä!
You demand in your motion new tax relief for the
construction and reconstruction of buildings as well as in regards the
establishment of photovoltaic installations. Amazingly, what you do not demand
is a women’s quota at construction sites. Generally in recent years,
construction and reconstruction have become significantly more expensive. The principal
reason for that is the ever more rigid construction guidelines, primarily in
the energy area. In addition come further problems like the homemade inflation,
the homemade energy crisis by way of power plant disconnections and supply
chain problems.
In your motion, you wish to fight the symptoms, the origins
of which you yourselves in great part have furnished by tolerance of the ECB
debts policy and the atomic withdrawal. With this fight against the symptoms,
you reach back to tax advantages; that in our view is false.
Tax advantages in comparison to a direct means of promotion
are unfavorable; since the advantages are only remunerative at a far above
average income. It is indeed nice that in the first three years a twice as high
tax reduction of 40 percent instead of 20 percent shall apply. Yet who really
has an income tax burden of 80,000 euros in three years?
The payment of the tax promotion also results clearly later
than would be the case with direct subsidies, and only long after the costs
fall due. The relief will further only be realized with the tax decision and
plainly only partially for most citizens. These tax regulatory arrangements are
complicated even for professional people – just what shall Otto Normal Consumer
say?
What we need are simple solutions, and that calls for direct
promotion of the hardworking citizen who with hard work has built or bought his
own home and now must outfit it in terms of energy. To reverse the promotion
program was the precisely wrong signal. The new government needs to be thoroughly
criticized for that. One of the first measures of Herr Habeck was to stop the
promotion program.
The demands in the CDU/CSU delegation’s motion are, for all
that, also unsozial; since private
persons with a small or moderate income, due to their smaller tax burden, have
no opportunities to participate in these tax advantages. Once again: We need
the direct promotion of the hardworking citizen who builds his own home or
rebuilds in terms of energy. That is the better means to reconstruct as many as
possible houses in terms of energy and to equip with photovoltaic.
Bernhard Herrmann (Greens): Ach, take a look!
One thing was completely forgotten in the motion. It will
become increasingly difficult to obtain appropriate, competent skilled labor
from the trades [Handwerk] for the
energy reconstruction. Already, the planned heating pump offensive is therein
failing. We will put forward a motion concerned that expert trades work finally
once again pays in this country.
Demand number 5 is sensible: That home ownership societies
can also erect and operate photovoltaic installations without much bureaucracy –
it is at this time a horror; I say this from personal experience – this demand
we expressly support.
We are happy with the consultation on this motion in
committee yet need realistically say that it is a very long way to an agreement
by our delegation. Yet even a very long way begins with a first step.
Bernhard Daldrup (SPD): Was that Mao Tse-Tung?
In that sense, there is still a little hope.
I am grateful for your attention.
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